Martin Johnson Heade

1819 - 1904

Noted artist and co-founder of the "luminist" style of landscape painting. Also known for his humingbird studies and floral still lifes. He first studied with Edward and Thomas Hicks in Newtown. Born and raised here; family owned ...

The Last Resting Place of Benjamin Franklin

1706 - 1790

"Venerated for benevolence, admired for talents, esteemed for patriotism, beloved for philanthropy."

Washington

"The sage whom two worlds claimed as their own."

Mirabeau

"He tore from the skies the lightning and from tyrants the sceptre."

Turgot

Marker ...

Chronology of Benjamin Franklin

1706 Born at Boston, January 17.

1723 Removed to Philadelphia.

1729 Editor of Pennsylvania Gazette.

1730 Appointed Public Printer.

1731 Founded the Philadelphia Library.

1736 Organized the first Philadelphia Fire Company.

1737 Appointed Postmaster of Philadelphia.

1738 Member of the ...

Red Jacket

Red Jacket, a small brass cannon, was first used in firing a salute of 500 guns when Georgia seceded from the Union. In custody of the Columbus Guards, it fired salutes at the inauguration of Jefferson Davis as President of ...

Major William Horton

Born in England

Came to Georgia in 1736

Died at Savannah in 1748

These are the remains of Horton's tabby house. Major Horton of Oglethorpe's Regiment, the first English resident of Jekyll Island, erected on the north end of Jekyll a ...

Benjamin Franklin

1706 - 1790

The class of 1930 at its 50th reunion honors Benjamin Franklin founder of the University of Pennsylvania which began at this site in 1749 and which in 1779 became the first university in this nation. We recognize ...

Rufus Thomas, Jr.

(Obverse)

Born March 26, 1917, in Cayce, Mississippi, this legendary entertainer known worldwide, began his career in the 1930s with the Rabbit Foot Minstrel Shows. He was the organizer and master of ceremonies of the amateur shows in the 1940s and ...

Jasper Spring

On this spot, according to long and persistent tradition, occurred one of Sergeant William Jasper's most famous exploits during the American Revolution. Here, in 1779, at the spring then located along the road to Augusta. Sergeant Jasper and Sergeant John ...

Saint John's Lodge Number Six

Saint John`s Lodge Number Six, of Sunbury, Free and accepted Masons, was chartered by the Grand Lodge of Georgia, April 21, 1777, in Masonry 5777. Under an Act of the Legislature of Georgia, February 6, 1796, The Grand Lodge was ...

12th Regiment New Jersey Volunteers

2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Corps

(Front):In memory of

the men of the

Twelfth Regiment

New Jersey Infantry

Volunteers,

who fell upon this field

July 2d & 3d 1863,

and who elsewhere

died under the flag

this monument is dedicated

by their surviving comrades

as an example

to future generations.

12th Regt.

N.J. Vol.

(Around the ...